About me

Íris Hadda is an art historian, photographer and writer based in Reykjavík.

Her work begins with images and the things that remain around them: memories, stories, absences, desires and fragments of lives that resist disappearing. Moving between photography, writing and art-historical research, she is interested in the ways personal images become archives, and how private memory eventually slips into cultural history.

Íris Hadda holds a BA in Art History and an MA in Research in Art History, a Master’s in Creative Writing and a diploma in Creative Photography. Her research has increasingly focused on photography, family archives and the relationship between image and memory.

Her photographic practice often begins from lived experience. Through images, text and found or inherited material, she explores intimacy, desire, vulnerability and the unstable boundary between documentation and fiction.

Her recent project Rauð klamídíuviðvörun í miðbænum um helgina (Red Chlamydia Alert in the City Center) took the form of both a photobook and an exhibition at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography.

She is currently developing her research around family photography and photographic archives, looking at what images preserve, what they lose, and what can still be recovered from them.